Trop jeune pour mourir ! Zu jung, um zu sterben ! Too young to die !

 
Sonia Klein, born on 2 February 1936; fled to France with her family after the German invasion of Luxembourg; the family took refuge in Nice but were arrested on 18 February 1944; transferred to the Drancy concentration camp (Paris); deported on 7 March 1944 with convoy no. 69 from Drancy to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp; probably murdered with her mother in a gas chamber upon arrival on 10 March 1944.

Photo: Mémorial de la Shoah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacqueline Wolff, born on 15 March 1933; fled to Belgium with her family and found refuge in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, near Brussels; arrested and then deported on 31 July 1943 with transport no. XXI from Malines (Belgium) to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp; probably murdered with her mother in a gas chamber upon arrival on 2 August 1943.

Photo: Jacqueline Wolff is the girl on the left. Shown here with her best friend Marion Deichmann.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

René Szczupak, born on 30 March 1924; fled to France on the day of the German invasion, 10 May 1940; joined the ranks of the maquisards of the ‘Secret Army’ (Armée secrète) in Corrèze; died in action on 17 August 1944 in Neuvic (Corrèze). René Szczupak was awarded the distinction ‘Mort pour la France’ (Died for France); his name is inscribed on the ‘Monument aux Morts’ (War Memorial) and on the ‘Monument commémoratif aux Résistants et maquisards’ (Memorial to Resistance fighters and maquisards) in Neuvic.

Photo: ANLux J-108-0324920

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leo Abelis, born on 15 October 1924; assigned to forced labour on the Eifel Autobahn in Greimerath, Germany on 4 September 1941; deported from occupied Luxembourg with transport no. 1 on 16/17 October 1941 to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Lodz, occupied Poland; died in the ghetto on 2 November 1942 allegedly from typhoid fever.
Photo: ANLux J-108-0351016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bernard Herrmann, born on 19 January 1923; after Jewish pupils were excluded from public and private schools, Bernard worked as a teacher in the Jewish school until he was deported; deported from occupied Luxembourg with transport no. 1 on 16/17 October 1941 to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Lodz, occupied Poland; forced labourer in the ghetto; murdered in the Chelmno extermination camp around 23 June 1944.
Photo: ANLux J-108-0030902

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Gitla Cukier, born on 6 March 1924; deported from occupied Luxembourg with transport no. 1 on 16/17 October 1941 to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Lodz, occupied Poland; forced labourer in the ghetto; deported from the Litzmannstadt ghetto to Auschwitz; forced labourer in Auschwitz; murdered in a gas chamber probably on 13 October 1944.
Photo: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Halina Jad, born on 6 April 1922; after Jewish pupils were excluded from public and private schools, Halina worked as a teacher in the Jewish school until it closed; on 11 August 1942, forced transfer to the Cinqfontaines camp in the north of Luxembourg; deported from occupied Luxembourg with transport no. 6 on 6/7 April 1943 to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia; deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on 6 September 1943; murdered around 9 March 1944 in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Photo: ANLux J-108-0334508

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margot Salomon, born on 19 April 1922; on 1 April 1942, forced transfer to the Cinqfontaines camp in the north of Luxembourg; deported from occupied Luxembourg with transport no. 6 on 6/7 April 1943 to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia; deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on 6 September 1943; murdered around 9 March 1944 in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Photo: ANLux J-108-0394207